Re: OOPS!

Nope... they'd be "buried" in Colorado's SuperMax prison, never to be seen again.

Re: Congressmen, please keep it to d*ck-sucking, m'kay?

Well, since most RepubliCLOWN lawmakers are chicken hawks who never served in the military themselves, they feel they're FULLY qualified to pass judgement on what the military needs... like more Abrams M-1 tanks when the majority of the 3,400 tanks the Army has are less than three years old...

I need a drink... put some WINE in that glass, El Reg... a good Cabernet Sauvignon will be fine...

There's a ship loading for Alpha Centauri, departing in about 20 years... be on it...

That's wine in that glass... I can't get El Reg to add a wine glass for me...

Re: When my mother died

However, if the estate has no assets, the bills have to be written off because, at least in California, creditors cannot go after the heirs to collect... They're simply SOL...

Have to pretend that's a wine glass because El Reg won't give me a glass of cabernet sauvignon... or merlot.

Re: uhuh

You realize, of course, that outside of Chicago and Los Angeles, there are relatively few 12 lane freeways... But the six lane Eastshore Freeway (I-80) between Richmond and the San Francisco Bay Bridge makes up for some of the lack... especially at rush hour.

Where's that da** wine glass?

Re: At last, an affordable, practical, decent looking e-car. WOOT Bollo*ks

Actually, I can drive over plowed fields with my V-6 with all wheel drive...

Wrong glass, but make mine Merlot...

Re: Paris potential?

Wrong kind of "hotness", and not enough body fat for the wick effect...

I'll take her 'hotness' though...

Re: Who actually buys office anyway ?

Hundreds of federal and state and local government agencies.,. The USPS probably buys about 200,000 copies of MS Office for all of its computer systems in the administrative and post offices nationwide... Of course, they may not upgrade it for 3-5 years, until the next rollout of computer systems which will be even more locked down than the current ones.

@Rampant Spaniel...

You just have to know where to look to find decent wine in the US... Start you tour in little ol' Napa Valley. Napa Valley has over 400 wineries, some very small to some VERY LARGE... Small ones tend to be the better wines, but even the big boys have some decent fermented grape juice. And do they love to experiment... whether with grapes or specific vineyards, or blending a wine with some small doses of different varietals to produce some fantastic wines. Some are available ONLY at the winery, some are available ONLY by mail order. Some, like Silver Oak Cellars, sell out at the release party, and they only have enough left to sample and sell at the winery, and if you're lucky, you can find their releases at a few high-end purveyors, or maybe your favorite restaurant, like The French Laundry. One of the hardest to get is Screaming Eagle... They offer no tours or tastings at the winery (it's not even listed in the phone book, and only a few lucky limousine drivers know where the winery is located)... the only way you can get Screaming Eagle is by mail order, IF you're on the mailing list, and there's a LONG waiting list to get on the mailing list... of course they also sell out every year, and I have never been able to get a bottle, even a $800 (or more) each.

Paris, 'cause if I had her money, I could afford to get a bottle of Screaming Eagle, or maybe Michael Mondavi's Spellbound, at about $40 a bottle.

Re: tut tut

When I was in high school, my parents' telephone number was the same as the local branch of Bank of America except for the prefix... We were constantly getting wrong numbers, and finally my father started responding to the wrong numbers with "Bank of XXXXX, we accept deposits but not withdrawals"... A few months later, Bank of America changed their number, and went to a central switchboard for the entire SF Bay Area... end of wrong numbers.

Re: original intent

Jeeez... Don't give the RepubliCLOWNS any more ideas... If they could keep Blacks or women or any other minority from having even a bb gun, they would move Heaven and earth to make it happen.

Re: Nugent

Teddy Nugent is not a survivalist... or a patriot... he's a CHICKEN HAWK, who was so anxious to go to VietNam (NOT!) that he stopped bathing when he got his induction notice, and stopped using a toilet a week before he was supposed to report... actually pissing and sh**ting in his pants that he wore the entire week... The induction station should have stripped him down and turned a fire hose on him... and brushed him down with a rotary wire brush and lye soap... then shipped his sorry @$$ to the worst basic training post in the country... I understand that Ft. Leonard Wood in the winter got pretty cold and the wind just blasted through the knotholes in the barracks walls... I had a cousin who went to Basic Training at Ft. Leonard Wood...

Re: TrueCall

I want one that will work with my cell phone lines...

Paris, just because I need some eye candy...

Re: Rick Champagne (@TeeCee)

Most US producers of the wine formerly called Champagne now abide by the EU regulations, and call their version of bubbly Sparkling Wine or California Champagne (less common) There are still a few who were producing bubbly before the agreement was adopted by the US and who still use Champagne. Of course, if the company producing bubbly in the US is owned by a French Champagne producer, they do not use the term Champagne on their product, per orders from HQ.

Where's my glass of w(h)ine???

Well, if you're in one of the states controlled by friends of the Koch(roach) brothers which has adopted ALEC's "Stand Your Ground" model law (i.e., Florida), just claim you were being threatened... Someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night IS a threat, right?

That's not beer in that glass, it's Chardonnay...Get me a WINE GLASS icon...

Re: So...

Why doesn't El Reg have a WINE GLASS icon yet? I've been asking for one for over a year...

Paris, because she's from California and would rather have fizzy wine, aka Champagne (except France says we can't call it that).

Re: Has been spent trying to get a fibre-optic cable moved..

From his one bedroom shared BASEMENT apartment to his new 3 bedroom penthouse overlooking the houses of Parliment.

"So am I one of those people when I ask myself "why does the ebook cost the same as a hardback (sometimes more!), when there's virtually zero transportation costs, printing, binding etc? It costs what the market will pay for it, and that's what it's worth.

And you've hit on the very reason I don't feel compelled to buy an ebook ... If I have to pay as much, or more, for a digital book, I'll just stick with the dead tree version. At least with a dead tree version, I can read while the airplane is taking off or landing without being told to shut down my paper device. And if I want to re-read it six months later, it will still be readable.

It's Wine O'Clock somewhere around the globe...

Re: iSore

Are you familiar with the Pontiac Aztec? UGLY angular pretense of a car,

or the Dodge Magnum, one FUGLY car... I had the misfortune of driving one for a week.

need to treat both of them to a ground zero event.

Re: Best application is drenched over three slices of Canadian bacon

You forgot that gasoline is about 20% more in Canada, because they use the Imperial gallon, or maybe litres now...

Mine's the one with the gallon of maple syrup in the pocket.

Re: What I wish would happen to WBC

There was an incident a couple of years ago where all four tires on a WBC van were slashed while they were spewing their hate (in Oklahoma, I think)... When they were ready to leave, they couldn't because of the slashed tires, and every independent tire shop in the town refused to sell them even one tire. They finally had to have the van towed to a nearby city where they bought the tires at a chain store tire center... They had to wait for a break in the line of cars wanting service before they could get their tires... several more hours. The chain store tire center manager said he would have refused them service too, but the store manager gave him a direct order.

Time for the nuclear option on Westboro Baptist Church of Hate...

Re: Frankly, my dear...

Did anyone else notice that the article said she didn't speak English? So here's a big bad cop who apparently doesn't speak a Chinese dialect trying to make a person who doesn't speak English understand that she can't buy the iPhones she wants, and has been told to leave the store, but she CANNOT understand him. Did ANYONE in that store speak Chinese, at least enough to explain that she has to leave... He can't make her understand, so he resorts to his trusty taser and has her on the ground screaming instead... but his boss says he used reasonable means... more like police over-reaction...

Invite...

I don't remember "seeing" an invite to vote either... I read about it from another source, and after fifteen minutes of poking around, found the site to vote... and FB refused to process or acknowledge my vote... Which leaves open the possibility that FB/Zuckerberg saw how the vote was going and just disabled the vote process so the next to impossible to reach requirement became, in fact, impossible to downvote the proposed changes.

Fail... because that's where FB is headed.

I have several friends who USED to be licensed contractors... they lost their licenses because of false bad reviews and claims of work not completed, after which their insurance company revoked their coverage, and effectively revoked their license since they can't have a license without the insurance coverage.

In both cases, they completed about ninety percent of the work in a timely manner and in a professional manner, then the customer filed a complaint with their insurance carrier and the contractor's state license board... The insurance company brought in a different contractor to complete the work, the customer refused to complete payments to the contractors for the work actually done, and the insurance company cancelled the contractor's insurance... which meant the CSLB cancelled the contractor's license for failure to carry mandatory insurance. The customers got their work done at a much discounted price, the original contractor was out the money and expenses, and forced to close his business.

Re: HP "usual scenario"

My recent experience with HP printers would seem to indicate that clowns abound in the assembly plants... had two different models that were defective out of the box... both have been returned and replaced with Canon. May try HP again in a year or two, if they're still around.

Re: Currys/PC World

Everything at Best Buy, Fry's, Wally World and every other chain store that sells 'puters in the San Francisco was infected with Win8 on the day it was released.. . No choice at all, and apparently nothing was left in the store the night before... or maybe the elves/slaves worked through the night to upgrade them.

Save Win 8 for tablets, and rewrite Win8 to work the way we're used to for desktops and laptops...

Another MASSIVE FAIL for Microshaft.

Re: Clearly

Ring of Fire... I had that as the ringtone for a former boss who was a pain in the @$$....

He didn't get the joke... Maybe I should have had it sung in Farsi (he was Iranian)

A beer glass will have to do since El Reg won't provide a glass of Merlot.

Re: Vitamin D

Don't know about the UK, but in the US Vitamin D is added to almost all milk sold in the various retail outlets...

Are they charging him for the food and beverages he consumes? If not they should be, and if he can't pay for it, then show him the door to the sidewalk. If he can afford to have Lady Gaga and other stars in to visit, he should be paying for their victuals as well...

After all, he is a failure... at life.

Re: Toshiba's self erasing 4TB spinner

I'm sure Mitt Romney would have wanted something like this when he left the MA governor's office... would have save a lot of time in erasing the records of his office and staff.

Fail because Romney failed at reality.

Re: Begin settling space,

@ Cynical... you forgot ALL Politicians... on the FIRST FLIGHT.

and Paris Hilton...

Re: This reminds me of a generation ago, when I lived in Sacramento

As yes... Del Taco is still in business, and expanding... Passable Fast Food Mexican.

Paris, just 'cause...

Re: Yes Yes Yes

Better yet, Mutt Romney or Paul Ryan, aka the Lyin' Twins...

A nice glass of wine for those of us with slightly more sophisticated tastes would be nice too.

Re: Nothing to see here...

Very appropriate except for one thing... when shipping with USPS, only place the address on one side... The reason is that if the clerk sorting the parcel doesn't see the postage next to the address label, they may treat it as unpaid, and charge the recipient...

WINE glass please...

Delivery drivers...

Last Christmas there was a video which went viral of a FedEX driver heaving a 24" monitor over the fence of an estate type home somewhere in the US... The owner of the house has a video security system which showed the driver pull up, get out of the truck, and heave the box over the fence... Owner of the house complained to a regional manager at FedEx, and the manager himself delivered a new monitor to the owner of the house... and walked it to the front door. FedEx wouldn't name the employee, and wouldn't say what, if any, punishment he received. Since FedEx drivers are non-union, I would imagine that someone got their walking papers, and the cost of the broken monitor was taken from his final paycheck.

MAJOR fail for the driver...

Re: Ah...

That's only for the part of California south of the Grapevine... Northern California still has some functioning brains, when they aren't pickled by fermented grape juice.

Where's my damn WINE glass...

Re: I hate printer "User Interface Engineers"

My old office had a number of Lexmark ink jet printers... the Lexmarks were replacements for a previous generation of Lexmark printers... Within a month of being installed, every one of the Lexmarks had various plastic parts breaking off, and within six months, they were non-functional.

Re: Management "strikes" again!!!

Not Damagement.... Manglement

Either way, it's a F A I L...

Re: Sounds good, but maybe a little extreme

I drive a limousine, and sometimes have to take a call from the dispatcher. I use a bluetooth headset tied to an iPhone and have all lines from the office set up with a unique ringtone so that I know the office is calling... To answer, i just push the button on the headset, then push it again when I'm finished... the phone never leaves the holster. If I get a call from any other numbers, I just let it go to voice mail, and deal with it when i'm not driving.

Paris, because I can't have a glass of wine when I'm driving.

Re: almost impossible to enforce

Dunno where you're at, but in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Chippies seldom enforce the car pool lane rules... I have seen car after car with only one person in them driving in the car pool lane pass me while I observe the rules... Since I drive professionally, I can't afford to get a couple of tickets for a car pool lane violation, let alone afford the fine levied (up to $471, depending on which highway you're on). Occasionally, I try to keep track of how many illegal cars pass me... sometimes it's as high as 50%, usually at least 25%.

Re: There's worse than "minimum"

Just hope your company isn't owned by Bain Vulture Capital, aka Mutt Romney... BVC would take huge management fees, borrow millions of dollars on the previous value of the company, move the jobs to China and make YOU train your Chinese replacements, move the manufacturing equipment to China (with payment for the equipment directly to BVC, drain your company retirement account, then file bankruptcy for the debt ridden shell that's left. Oh, and they would take down the American flag from in front of the plant while you were training the Chinese replacements, then put it back up after they return to China... Think it won't happen... just ask the employees of Sensata Technologies... the trucks were loaded up last week and sent to Los Angeles for shipment to China... BTW, Mutt Romney still owns 51% of that particular Bain fund.

Re: Republican women have to be pretty

Not only so republiCLOWN men can recognize them as sex objects... so they can treat them as sex objects, but only until they get them preggers, then they drop them like a hot potato.

Re: Maybe they Democrats need more Botox

Not just a "wine country estate"... Ms. Pelosi and her husband own an operating winery as well... Don't think it's open for public tours though.

Paris, for something nicer to look at until El Reg lets me have a glass of wine... Cabernet Sauvignon preferred...

Re: True

One time, my carrier walked around my open car door, around my feet sticking out of the door, and dropped a notice for a parcel in the mailbox, then walked around both my feet and my car door to get back to the sidewalk to go to the next house... Because the notice was for a COD package, I had to drive seven miles to the post office the next day, stand in line for a half hour, and pay CASH (no checks accepted at that time) for the package... I filed a complaint with the Postmaster, and got back a form letter saying the carrier had rang the doorbell (didn't have one, and the front door was 25 feet further from the street than my mailbox)... After that, I had any mail requiring a signature delivered to my office... which was the post office in another city.

beer, because El Reg won't give me a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon...

Re: Old News?

Of course, you have to remember that American Airlines is in bankruptcy as well... Don't have a lot of extra money to play with, so they'll HAVE to raise rates to buy the iPads.

That's me coat, with the iPad in the pocket...

Re: "The box only holds 3TB - USB sticks will hold more and you can carry them in your pocket. "

Not so much big pockets as DEEP pockets... or a very big wallet.

Paris, just because she's there...

Re: Once again a government fails it's people.

Only if the "Back to the 1850's" RepubliCLOWN Party gets control...

Beer, because I'll need a whole lot of it if the RepubliCLOWNs win in November...